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Envies his being in Italy. Is working on the material
about Eddy, after three men failed with it. It
drives out every trace of an imaginative idea. Why doesn't he like [Pierre] Loti—afraid of real
imagination? He covers up his own with slang and imitations of Kipling. Or maybe he fears being sentimental. McClure has paid $500 for illustrations for "The Valley of the Mills." Was
in Pittsburgh a couple of months ago and saw the Willards. Only music saves her in New York. Please ask Mr.
Reynolds to send her his work personally.
Willa S. Cather
[Stout
#125]

Letter ID: 0137

Addressee: Goudy, Alice E. D.

Date: 1908-05-03

Repository: Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation

To Mrs. Alice E. D. Goudy,
May 3, [1908], from Naples,
Italy
; WCPM

Has just returned from a week in the Apennines. Spent two days in Pompeii
and is enjoying the Pompeiian collection at the Naples Museum, also the beautiful Bay of
Naples. The classical world seems close at hand. Has regained enough Latin to read Tacitus and Suetonius. Remembers seeing a picture
of the bust of Caesar in a textbook when Mr. Goudy was her teacher, and now has seen it at the museum.
Farmers working their fields just as in Virgil'sGeorgics. Goes on to Rome next week.
Willa
[Stout
#137]

What a beautiful place! Camellias and roses in bloom all around. Room overlooks the Gulf of
Salerno, as blue as the water in a [Pierre] Puvis de Chavannes painting. Yesterday a festival
celebrating the arrival of the skull of St. Andrew in Amalfi seven hundred years ago, but enjoyment interrupted by the arrival of some
people she used to know in Nebraska. [Alice] Meynell's essays
about Italy in the bookJewett gave her are very fine, especially the
essay "The Lesson of
Landscape," but A. E. Housman writes with
equal truthfulness, and she includes a transcription of his "The Olive," a poem he gave her that she has never
seen in print. The "White
Heron" and the Dunnet ladies
[references to copies of books by Jewett] are always with her.
Willa Cather
[Stout
#138]

Went to Maine June 7 and returned home yesterday. Had a
wonderful time with Fremstad and then visited
Mary Jewett. With Fremstad, was active every minute, fishing, rowing, hiking, and cooking. What a
vigorous woman! Thornton Oakley would do good
illustrations for a book on Provence. Scribner's would be a good
publisher for it. Going to Wyoming soon. Isabelle will probably go to Italy during that time.
W.
[Stout
#284]

Excited about her play [The Magical City opened at the Bandbox Theater in mid-March
1916]. Sets wonderful, characters wonderful. Poet character a true ass. Shows what a
clear sense of theater she has. Sorry for the poor handwriting, but is in bed with grippe.
Hoping to sail for Italy in early June unless submarines
get too active.
W. S. C.
[Stout
#352]

Enjoying the food, though prices are high. Not shopping except for necessities. Will spend a
few weeks with the Hambourgs and go with them to the south of France and to Sorrento. Edith Lewis going to Italy
next week. Has not gone on with "Claude"
since arriving, but has planned some cuts, so the money she has spent on drinks has not gone
for nothing. French wine is really the essence of the culture.
Willa Cather
[Stout
#509]

Letter ID: 0510

Addressee: Cather, Frances (Franc) Smith

Date: 1920-07-04

Repository: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, George Cather Ray Collection (MS113)

A huge procession of war orphans marched in a parade today to celebrate America. The stars
and stripes flying above public buildings. The French like American soldiers, but not Wilson. Hopes to go to Cantigny next week, though trains still disrupted. Feeling good
after the voyage. Almost dreads trip to Naples,
with travel so difficult now.
Willa
[Stout
#510]